哈佛醫學院推出新規則：：阻止其學院從大型藥業收受賄賂

哈佛醫學院推出新規則：：阻止其學院從大型藥業收受賄賂
Harvard Medical School rolls out new rules to stop its faculty from accepting bribes from Big Pharma
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer
(NaturalNews) It is common practice for medical professionals to accept gifts, free travel, meals and other forms of indirect compensation from drug companies and medical device manufacturers for giving speeches that endorse their products. But Harvard Medical School has now made a new rule that prohibits its 11,000 faculty members from engaging in this activity.
（NaturalNews）它是常見的做法醫療專業人員會接受禮物、免費旅遊、餐飲和其它形式來自製藥公司和醫療設備製造商的間接補償，為發言時贊同他們的產品。但是哈佛醫學院已定出新的規則，禁止它的11,000名學院全體教職員參與這一活動。
The school is also requiring that faculty who consult with drug companies, join their boards and work with them in any other ways, report all income over $5,000 publicly. The school is promising to keep a better watch on the relationships that its faculty has with drug and medical device companies as well.
學校亦要求協商製藥公司的學院教職員，加入它們的董事會 和 以任何其他方式與他們工作，報告所有公開地超過5.000美元的收入。學校有希望保持更好的觀察，在它的學院與藥物和醫療設備公司的關係。
"We're anxious to be viewed publicly as doing what's in the best interest of our patients," explained Dr. Robert Mayer, co-chairman of the committee responsible for Harvard's new policy.

According to both Dr. Mayer and Dr. Jeffrey Flier, dean of Harvard's Medical School, faculty will still be allowed to work with such companies to perform industry-funded research, as well as be paid to sit on scientific advisory boards.

The new rules were spurred by Senator Charles Grassley's (R-IA) recent investigation concerning Harvard physicians who allegedly broke federal and medical school conflict-of-interest rules. Harvard has responded by proposing the new rules which are designed to improve its image in the view of the public.

A recent Boston Globe article about the new policy explains that Dr. Mayer's intent with the new rules is that they "are designed to keep doctors from becoming -- or being perceived as -- marketing agents for industry." So it is difficult to ascertain whether anything will actually change, or whether it will simply be perceived as changing.

Sources for this story include:

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/07/21/harvard_puts_tighter_limits_on_medical_faculty/

http://www.naturalnews.com/029349_big_pharma_bribes.html